Moving Beyond Disciplinary Silos Towards a Transdisciplinary Model of Wellbeing: An Invited Review.

ABSTRACT: The construct of wellbeing has been criticised as a neoliberal construction of western individualism that ignores wider systemic issues such as inequality and anthropogenic climate change. Accordingly, there have been increasing calls for a broader conceptualisation of wellbeing. Here we impose an interpretative framework on previously published literature and theory, and present a theoretical framework that brings into focus the multifaceted determinants of wellbeing and their interactions across multiple domains and levels of scale. We define wellbeing as positive psychological experience, promoted by connections to self, community and environment, supported by healthy vagal function, all of which are impacted by socio-contextual factors that lie beyond the control of the individual. By

SUBMITTER: Mead J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8160439 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature